Evolve – Serve – Receive

As I get ready to enter 2017, toughness is on my mind. Another word could be resilience. In 2016 I had many clients that said they were tough and resilient but the results proved different. No judgment here, I have my own issues. Recently an old and very dear friend of mine started posting on Facebook. If you want an example of tough and resilient, check out Sam Sciabarrasi. Sam planted his flag in the Pizza Business 30+ years ago and kept at it. Along the way, he got married and built a beautiful family of six children. Sam’s little

If you were to talk to any Gold medal champion they will tell you the same thing. Stick to the basics and put in the work. In 1980 Switzerland won the Gold medal in Judo beating the Japanese. The Japanese had won the last three gold medals in 1964, 1972, and 1976. The Japanese were perplexed! How could they have lost to Switzerland? So they sent a team to visit Switzerland and check out the Gold Medal winner’s routine. They were expecting some extremely advanced training. The champion showed the Japanese everything which wasn’t much. What did the Japanese find?

Have you ever found yourself telling others how you’re going to write a book, start a business, or do something else that has the potential to enhance your life? I sure have… a lot. This can be a trap because for most, as we tell others, we get a hit of feel-good emotion. These emotions trick us into feeling we already succeeded. As we do this long enough a fear sets in that says, “I’d better not write that book because if it doesn’t work, I will lose all the good feelings I get from telling others about my plans.